{"id":112083,"date":"2022-06-25T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=112083"},"modified":"2022-06-25T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T19:30:53","slug":"the-river-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-river-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is where I can sit for hours,<br \/>\nhere in this place, on this bench,<br \/>\nwhere I watch the Ohio River<br \/>\nglide by.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when I am especially quiet<br \/>\nI see families of white-tailed deer<br \/>\nstepping delicately into the river<br \/>\nfor a morning drink.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes geese fly along the top of the water<br \/>\nand then plunge into the river,<br \/>\nhonking at each other<br \/>\nto stay out of their glidepaths.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the town church bells play<br \/>\ndelicate songs that I can\u2019t quite place<br \/>\nbut are somehow also familiar<br \/>\nand sweet.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I walk through wildflowers<br \/>\non the grounds of the old hospital<br \/>\nand the blue jays call out all around me<br \/>\nand wild turkeys scurry across the path.<\/p>\n<p>I know all the stories here:<br \/>\nthose who drowned in the river,<br \/>\nthose who married and raised families,<br \/>\nthose who still haunt the graveyard.<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine growing old here,<br \/>\nspending peaceful hours watching the river,<br \/>\nbeing with the river,<br \/>\nslowly becoming part of the river itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is where I can sit for hours, here in this place, on this bench, where I watch the Ohio River glide by. Sometimes when I am especially quiet I see families of white-tailed deer stepping delicately into the river for a morning drink. Sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112144,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112083\/revisions\/112144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}